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This latest success came just as the centrist Aquino presidency was recovering from a series of political setbacks. The shooting of 18 demonstrators on January 22 by security forces drew extreme criticism from the left; five days later right-wing elements of the armed forces staged an abortive coup. Then, on January 30, rebel negotiators announced that they would no longer seek an extension of the two month cease-fire between Communist and government troops...
...clear favorites for either party. The Republicans have to show that they can win without Reagan by offering the voters something other than the telegenic truisms of the Gipper. The Democrats, on the other hand, should use these encouraging election results to find the resolve to avoid slipping into centrist defeatism. They must reaffirm their commitment to social justice and compassion, to peace and to an activist government ready, willing and able to help...
...transformation of Michael Dukakis is complete. Gone forever is Dukakis I, the strident inflexible intellectual liberal of the '60s and '70s. Dukakis II is centrist, pro-business, and smiling, all the way to national politics. Idea number one here is that the Dukakis for President campaign is off and running. Kitty said as much on election night. If Mario Cuomo does not watch out, he will soon be Number 2 among putative national candidates from the Northeast...
Most of Mondale's financial team eventually joined Impac '88, and other party fund raisers were invited to participate. Impac's members are veteran Democratic centurions, centrist in outlook and combative in style. By shopping for a contender as a group rather than waiting to be wooed two or three at a time, Landow & Co. hope to win more clout in shaping the candidate's campaign. But what they want most of all is a winner...
That much oatmeal between glossy red-white-and-blue covers made the party's surviving left wing gag. Observed Ann Lewis, director of the Americans for Democratic Action: "It was not the stuff that energizes voters." Pointing out that Democratic primary voters this year have recoiled from centrist candidates, she added, "Every primary in which there was a clear choice between a real Democrat and an imitation, they chose the genuine article." If "real Democrat" is defined as liberal, the returns in several key contests bear her out. In Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving...